this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …

This paper focuses on the estimation and predictive performance of several estimators for the time-space dynamic panel …

Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes …

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …

households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a … risk, and is unique in recovering for, any given risky asset class, the shares that are reallocated to a safer asset … category. Background risk exerts a significant impact on household portfolios, resulting in a 'flight from risk', away from …

excessive financial risk. Recent theory concludes that 10-15% of a worker's wealth portfolio can be prudently invested in … financial risk. We also find that families with employer stock are found to express more tolerance of financial risk, have … financial risk does not appear to represent a substantial problem in practice for most employee share owners, a small minority …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …